Tape Drive

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 18:22 -0500, Thomas Allen wrote:
> I just want to get the tape drive working to do simple backups.....I am
> a newbie at this linux so please bear with me....are the apps.hard to
> configure? or should I stick with tar? Thanks for the help!
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start small...

#1 - trim the bs at the bottom - especially when you use the digest
version of the list, get rid of everything not pertinent to the
exchange.

#2 - from a command line...

su -                          #log in as root
grep tape /etc/modprobe.conf  # any appropriate kernel modules?
lsmod |grep tape              # any appropriate kernel modules?
                              # if not...let's try
modprobe ide-tape             # see what happens
tail /var/log/messages        # did it assign /dev/hdc to /dev/nst0
                              # or /dev/ht0 or ???
mt rewind /dev/hdc            # for S&G's if assigned above...
                              # use that instead of /dev/hdc

let's see what you can get done of those commands and report back.

this may or may not be relevant...
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/tape.html

Craig